I would have thought Stratford upon Avon was much more literary than Brighton?

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mind you we did have Chris Farlowe on at the RSC with Van Morrison...anyone remember Chris Farlowe (Out of time?)

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Actually thinking about it, Brighton sounds more fun than S-on-A, not that I've been invited of course...

..:::looks round nervously:: I do..and that immortal line which i thought was just amazing then.."you're obsolete my baby"....longed to say that to a boyfriend ..

Ellie

where are these green smilies coming from?

but the classic of course is that as well as the song having been written by the Glimmer twins is Mick Jaggers immortal

'Is everybody ready'

just before the end of the song which marks the Farlowe version apart form other versions including that of the Stones version.

and of course Brighton has more character than Stratford after all I know some great people who lived in Brighton.

Other than Will Shakespeare who else has come form Stratford

just a colon and a bracket...god knows why its green though..

perhaps because it came form somebody's lap

who else? [i}who else olebut?...why John Profumo of course (OK so he wasn't born here but he did a grand job er....representing us...)

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Screaming Lord Sutch fought his first campaign here...should I go on? Actually I'm a little tired at the moment but I'm sure the list is, as they say, endless...goodnight.

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...retires, hurt.

Well, I can't imagine what those green blobby things are supposed to be, appropriate colour though for the earlier parts of this conversation.
So,... Let's all go to Brighton who isn't there already. Tweed, are you living there already, or did I read your message wrong?

I think Tweed may be in Stratford.

Now.... to open another can of worms. Will Shakespeare may not have come from Stratford at all, in fact the W.S. we know and love is more likely to have been Edward de Vere, 17th. Earl of Oxford. I think I've mentioned this before on another forum, but the evidence is both compelling and fascinating. Some will say it doesn't matter who wrote the plays and sonnets, but I love a mystery and believe the rightful author should be given the credit and status he deserves.

http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/

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And Ellie - will you please tell us how to add the smillies?

Sorry (oops, there's another one) - joining this debate a bit late perhaps...
Literary vs non- literary? I've come to think of this as a strictly academic thing. Publishers, agents etc. like to propound the idea of work as literary because there's a certain culture of critique and debate that comes up then... and it's all good publicity. But I once heard somebody say any work has to be given at least 50 yrs before you really know if it's "literature" or not - and it's not really based on readership or response so much as something academians refer to as "the canon". Phallocentric jokes aside, it's basically whether or not this or that piece of writing is considered to justifiably provoke debate within and externally to it's context... seeing as this is a highly subjective categorisation it continues to aggravate. As a result, "popular" novels (suggesting that literary works are the unpopular ones!) are starting to appear on course lists everywhere, and lecturers and teachers are rejoicing and condemning the whole thing in equal measures.
This doesn't clear anything up does it? Sorry (again!)
Green smiley - colon and closed bracket
Yellow wink - semi-colon and closed bracket
Smileys/emoticons. I think they're great....

Ref Will The Bard

I seem to recall some computer analysis of certain works which compared writing style and the conclusion was that some of the work acredited to Willy may not have been written by him at all but possibly by a female.

so we have John Profumo and possibly a writer who may or may not have been Shakespeare and David Sutch's first political speech, with the exception of David Sutch hardly momentous events really.#(

Umm... can I (rather belatedly) join in please? Oh, go on, pretty please with a cherry on top?

Thanks...

So what does rofl (Ellenna) and I lmao and fofl (olebut) stand for then? I'm happy to admit to ignorance about virtual communication - having always been a fan of proper, spell-it-out-in-full-so-the-cloth-headed-buggers-don't-misunderstand school of thought. Someone (post-grad in virtual design, i.e. happier with a computer than a person) once gave me a list of the common abbreviation, but now, just when it would be useful I can't find it.

Regarding literary and non-literary, I think it's completely a matter of personal taste. Of course, publishers, reviewers and commentators need to be able to bracket things (it has ever been so) and this seems like a broad distinction that allows people to feel smug about their pseudo-intellectual pronouncements. My view is that people enjoy reading it, then that's the important thing.

Vis-a-vis a reunion, if you go to Brighton, tell me if 84-87 Queens Road is still standing (just down from the station). Designed it ten years ago, and never went back after it was finished... would like to think that it's being used properly.

Steph - Internet acronyms at:

http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/

Re. the Queens Road building, I'm sure it's still standing - is it the casino or the red brick one with unusual geometrically shaped windows further down? Perhaps neither. How wonderful to be able to point to a building and say that you had a hand in putting it there.

well Nell! Have learnt some very new ones..and my gut feeling is oh god how appalling if we all end up communicating like this...

Ellie

Hey Ellie - we're writers aren't we, words are literary, acronyms not. (Nell ducks below the monitor.)

Re. the meetup - who'd be interested? It might take some organising, there's a small possibility we'll all hate each other, but then again it could be fun. All welcome of course.

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And since I'm from Brighton, can I come?